Abbildungen der Seite
PDF
EPUB

lect of an importaût personal and public duty, and bear the charge of bringing this "evil on the city."

New Haven (Conn.), Herald.

TO TAKE SPOTS OF GREASE OUT OF
BOOKS OR PAPER. .

After having gently warmed the paper that is stained with grease, wax, oil, or any other fat body, take up as much as possible of it by means of blotting paper; then dip a small brush in the essential oil of turpentine, heated almost to ebullition, for when cold it acts only very weakly, and draw it gently over both sides of the paper, which must be carefully kept warm. This operation must be repeated as many times as the quantity of the fat body imbibed by the paper, or the thickness of the paper, may render necessary. When the greasy substance is entirely removed recourse may be had to the following method to restore the paper to its former whiteness, which is not completely restored by the first process. Dip another brush in highly rectified spirit of wine, and draw it in like manner over the place which was stained, and particularly round the edges, to remove the border that would still present a stain. By employing these means with proper caution, the spot will totally disappear, the paper will assume its original whiteness, and if the process has been employed on a part written on with common ink, or priated with printer's ink, it will experience no alteration.

[blocks in formation]

ed oxygenated acid discharges all printed and dyed colors. A convenient mode of applying the oxygenated acid, easily practicable by persons who have not the apparatus for saturating water with the gas, is as follows: Put about a table spoonful of muriatic acid, spirits of sea salt, into a tea cupful, and add to it about a tea spoonful of powdered manganese; then set this cup in a larger one filled with hot water; moisten the stained spot with water, and expose it to the fumes that arise from the tea cup. If the exposure be continued a sufficient length of time, the stain will disappear.

TO REMOVE SPOTS OF GREASE FROM
CLOTH.

Spots of grease may be removed by a diluted solution of potash ; but this must be cautiously applied, to prevent injury to the cloth. Stains of white wax, which sometimes fall on the clothes from wax candles, are removable by spirit of turpentine, or sulphuric ether. The marks of white paint may also be discharged by the last mentioned agents.

BOSTON, TUESDAY, DEC. 19, 1826

THE TWO EXTREMES.

[blocks in formation]

alarmed at last, and the doctor is sent for in great haste. These last mentioned patients form the greater part of the physician's harvest, for what at first would have been relieved or removed by two or three visits, will now require, when well fixed and settled, the attendance of as many weeks or months. Thus both classes lose sight of their true interest, and deviate from the ration

al medium.

What better can the healthy man do than to continue in that way of life which has made him so, being always cautious, temperate and grateful? And what better the sick man, than to apply in season for that aid which he cannot give himself, and by delaying to do which he incurs the risk of severe suffering, of expense, loss of time, and loss of life? He who pays the least attention to the preservation of his health when he possesses it, generally behaves with the least propriety when he has lost it. And this might be expected; for he who pays the least regard to what is incumbent and expedient in one respect, is most likely to conduct with equal indiscretion in another.

[blocks in formation]

WELLS & LILLY

AVE just published GOOD'S BOOK

Good health is a blessing which, H OF NATURE, in 2 vols. 8vo.

like all other valuable possessions,
requires for its attainment, preser-
vation and security,-thonght, ef-
fort, and selfcontrol; and he who
loses it by negligence, imprudence or
excesses, cannot consistently com-
plain of his pains and privations.
Means are everywhere to be
for the attainment of ends.
unreasonable are many men,
after having undervalued and wasted

used

Yet so

that

MEDICAL SCHOOL OF MAINE.

T College, will commence on Tuesday, the 20th day of February, 1827.

HE Medical Lectures at Bowdoin

Theory and Practice of Physic by DANIEL OLIVER, M. D. Professor of the same department at Hanover, N. H.

Anatomy and Surgery by J. D. WELLS, M. D.

Midwifery by J. M'KEAN, M. D. Chemistry and Materia Medica by P. CLEAVELAND, M. D.

The Anatomical Cabinet is very valua ble and extensive,

The Library is one of the best Medical Libraries in New England; and is every year enriched by new works, both foreign and domestic.

Every person becoming a member of this Institution, is required to present satisfactory evidence, that he possesses a good moral character.

Citizens of Maine in indigent circumstances may have surgical operations performed, free of expense, if brought into the vicinity of the College during the Course. As a reduction in the price of boarding is an object of importance to many, arrangements have been made, which, it is hoped, may effect this object to a

considerable extent.

Brunswick, September 26, 1826.

SAILOR'S PHYSICIAN. ICHARDSON LORD have been

rhage was offered; the premium has been awarded to H. G. Jameson, M. D., Surgeon to the Baltimore Hospital, and the essay will be published in the next No. 33, of the Recorder, now in the press; also, communications from the following gentlemen, namely ;-Dr. Hewson's interesting case of Umbilical Hernia, Dr. Cross, of Lexington, Ky. on the Circulation of the Blood; Dr. Mitchener on Fever; Papers furnished by the Medical Society of Virginia; Mr. Gardette on Diseases of the Teeth ; &c. &c., besides some interesting Reviews of recent medical publications.

The departments of Analysis of American and Foreign Medical Journals, Analecta and Medical Intelligence, will be supplied, with all the new and important medical information of the day. a view to crowd

Rappointed by the proprietors agents to the Journal, it is it more matter, in

for the sale of "SAILOR'S PHYSICIAN,
containing Medical Advice for Seamen,
and other persons at Sea, on the Treat-
ment of Diseases, and on the preservation
of Health in sickly climates. By Usher
Parsons, M. D., formerly of the United
States Navy-2d edition."

MEDICINES, SURGICAL INSTRU-
MENTS, &c.

A

FULL assortment of DRUGS, MEDICINES, CHEMICALS, SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS, and other articles in the line, for sale on the most accommodating terms, by BARTLETT & BREWER, at the sign of the Good Samaritan, No. 92, Washington street, late 13, Cornhill.

J

UST published, and for sale by MUNROE & FRANCIS, and RICHARDSON & LORD, the Philadelphia Journal of the Medical and Physicul Sciences,edited by N. Chapman, M. D. Professor of the Institutes and Practice of Physic and Clinical Practice in the University of Pennsylvania; W. P. Dewees, M. D. Ad-junct Professor of Midwifery in the University of Pennsylvania; and John D. Godman, M. D. Professor of Anatomy and Physiology in the Medical College of N. York. No. 25, for November, 1826. PUBLICATION OFFICE OF THE MEDICAL RECORDER, No. 24, South Eight Street, Philadelphia. SOME time ago a premium for the best Essay on the Suppression of Hemor

each number, commencing with the one now in the press.

RICHARDSON & LORD, Agents,

ATHENEUM:

Boston.

OR, SPIRIT OF THE ENGLISH MAGAZINES.
FOR DECEMBER 15,

UST published by John Cotton, 184'

CONTENTS.-The Barber of Gottingen Gymnastics-The Widow's NuptialsA Watery Grave--Elijah's Interview with God-The Widow and her SonTravels in the Subterraneous Regions of the Globe-Inch-Cruin, the Island of the Afflicted--Coaches and Sedans--The Condemned Cell-The Lantern in the Castle-Yard-Method of Burning Lime without Kilns-Scotch Song-Improved Process of Printing or Dyeing Woollen and other Fabrics.

PURIFIED PYRO LIGNEOUS ACID.

THE

HE use of this article is a perfect substitute for the common process of smoking Meat; and the flavor of Hams, &c. prepared with it, is fully equal, if not superior, to that given in smoking. One quart is sufficient for 150 or 200 pounds of meat. It is used by simply bathing the hams with the acid three or four times; or by mixing it with the pickle which is put to the pork. The above Acid is constantly kept for sale in barrels, kegs, and bottles, at 70, Court-street, by JOSEPH KIDDER.

Published weekly, by John Cotton, at 184, Washington St. corner of Franklin St., to whom all communications must be addressed, postpaid.-Price three dollars per annum, if paid in advance, but, if not paid within three months, three dollars and a half will be required, and this will, in no case, be deviated from.-Advertisements,$ 1 a square.

MEDICAL INTELLIGENCER.

JOHN G. COFFIN, M.D., EDITOR.

THE BEST PART OF THE MEDICAL ART, IS THE ART OF AVOIDING PAIN,

VOL. 5.

TUESDAY, MAY 22, 1827.

From the London Literary Gazette.
MEDICAL ESSAYS.-NO. III.

"First the infant, Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms." Shakspeare.

In the conclusion of the former Essay, I endeavored to demonstrate the danger which attends every attempt to rear an infant by any other means than the breast milk. But, nevertheless, it must be admitted, that narrow means and many other causes concur, and always will occur, to render it necessary to hazard the experiment of dry nursing; and, when such is unfortunately the case, it is of importance to know what description of food is best adapted for early infancy. In selecting food for a young infant we should choose those substances which readily unite with water, so as to form a fluid diet, light, nutritious, and unfermentable. Perhaps nothing is so suitable as barleygruel, mixed with a small portion of cow's milk; or thin arrowroot mucilage, or grit gruel, thinned with milk, and slightly sweetened. Every description of bread food is injurious to very young children: it is too thick, even in the most pultaceous state to which it can be reduced, and being very susceptible of fermentation, it readily becomes sour in the stomach, and disorders the bowels of the child. Whatever kind of food is preferred, it should be given through the feeding bottle, and

No. 1.

the orifice of the bottle should be guarded by a sponge enclosed in a piece of perforated washleather; so that the child shall obtain the tion of it which is fluid enough to food by suction, and only that portaken into the stomach. pass through the sponge shall be The quantity of the food should be restrength of the child; but few ingulated by the size and the fants require more than a quarter of a pint at a meal; and as the best kind of artificial food is less nutritive, from being less easily digested, than that which Nature has prepared, the stated periods of feeding should be at shorter intervals than when the infant is suckled. Asses' milk is regarded as an excellent substitute for the breast milk; but I am of opinion that it is more likely to disagree with many children than the barleygruel and milk, which, on the whole, afford the best alterna

tive.*

2. Food of Children after Weaning.-In entering on this part of our subject, we should first inquire what is the proper time for weaning an infant? Many circumstances concur to prevent any specific period in the age of the child from being fixed

It is a curious fact, that the asses'milk sold in London, where the asses are fed on hay, seldom agrees with infants;

while that of asses fed on a common, as seldom disagrees.

.

on for this process.* Nature, form a part of the child's midday however, affords us something meal. The animal food should

like a guide in the protrusion of the teeth; for it is reasonable to suppose that the stomach must be prepared to digest solid food, when the instruments for masticating it are furnished to the mouth. When an infant is in health, therefore, it may be weaned as soon as the cutting teeth are protruded in both jaws; but still the food should be of a soluble quality, and continue to be so till the grinders are present. The food best adapted for a child, for some time after it is weaned, is that of a pultaceous kind, combined with cow's milk, and, once a day, with other light animal juices, such as beef tea or chicken tea, perfectly freed from fat. The common practice of giving puddings to children is, in some respects, objectionable, on account of the probability that the eggs with which they are made are not always newlaid; and, in general, also, the quantity of sugar which such combinations contain, disposes them to ferment and become acescent in the stomach; particularly if they be made with flour, or, as the term is, are batter puddings, the least wholesome which can be given to an infant. When the grinders are protruded, a portion of solid animal food should be given every other day for some time, and afterwards once a day; and well boiled vegetables may, now, also

[blocks in formation]

be confined to poultry or mutton; all other kinds of animal food are improper; and nothing is so injurious to children as fat, or highly seasoned, or salted meats. Convulsions frequently occur among the children of the lower classes, from eating bacon and other strong and oily animal food; and in Iceland, more than twothirds of the children which are born are destroyed by ginkloffe, lockjaw, owing to their food consisting chiefly of Puffins and Fulmurs without any vegetable matter.* But, besides the quality of the food, great caution is requisite in regulating the quantity. Mothers are too fond of seeing their children fat. "O! what a fine fat fellow!" is a compliment which wins every mother's heart; and, consequently, every effort is made to deserve it. I cannot, however, avoid looking on all corpulent children with anxiety; as long as they continue in health, their plump and rounded figures are agreeable and flattering to the pride of a mother's eye; but when disease makes its attack, the gross and highly excitable state of the infant body affords fuel to the flame of disease, and, consequently, leads to a fatal issue; while, on the contrary, the more slender child, if moderately strong, struggles through disease, because the malady itself wants the aliment which furnishes its powers of de

struction.

As children advance in age, and acquire all their teeth, and become capable of taking active exercise, less caution in diet is re

* See J. Mackenzie's Travels, 4to. Ap pendix, p. 413.

« ZurückWeiter »